Experimenting with AD for in house TV productions: THUIS. An example from Flanders Advanced Research Seminar in Audio-description, Universidad Autónoma Barcelona, 19-20 March 2015. Paper.

2014

From intuitions and guidelines to research and translation strategies: AD for film & TV, University of Edinburg and Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, Joint Research Seminars, 29 January 2014. Invited speaker.

ADLAB: The Manual. 10th International Languages and the Media Conference, Berlin,6-7 November 2014.

Subtitling and translator training: Exploring the possibilities. Invited guest speaker at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, 5 December 2012.

From audiovisual translation to media accessibility. Audio-description and audio-subtitling: challenges and opportunities. Invited plenary speaker at the biennial conference of the Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators, 1 to 3 December 2012, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

The textual complexity of audio-description with audio-subtitling: Making multilingual films accessible for the blind and partially sighted. 9th International Languages & the Media Conference and Exhibition. Berlijn, 21-23 november 2012.

Alles wat u wilde weten over audiodescriptie in 5 minuten /All you ever wanted to know about audio-description in 5 minutes, presentation on the occasion of the launch of Witse, the Flemish public broadcaster’s first TV series with AD, VRT, Brussels, 5 January 2012.

“The possibilities of interdisciplinarity: two projects in audiovisual translation”, 23rd CATS-congres Research Methodology in Translation and Interpretation, Montreal (Canada), 28-30 May 2010.

2009

Live subtitling with speech recognition. Pilot research project and training at Artesis University College and the University of Antwerp (2nd International Respeaking Seminar, UA Barcelona, 19 June, project co-supervisors Luuk Van Waes & Mariëlle Leijten).

An investigation into the need for intralingual open subtitling in Flanders (5th International EST Congress, Why Translation Studies Matters, University of Ljubljana, 3-5 September, co-authors Annick De Houwer & Reinhild Vandekerckhove, University of Antwerp).

The Audio Description of films: A first attempt at investigating the challenges posed by sound (Symposium on Audio Description for Visually Impaired People. Towards an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda. University of Surrey, Guildford, 28-29 June).

Real time subtitling in Flanders: Needs and teaching (First International Seminar on Real Time Subtitling, University of Bologna at Forli, 17 November, co-presenter Bart van der Veer, Artesis University College).

Intervention in native-language programmes: Intralingual subtitling of Dutch and Flemish TV programmes in Flanders (IATIS Conference Interventions in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Encounters, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, 12-14 July, co-authors Annick De Houwer & Reinhild Vandekerckhove, University of Antwerp).

De evaluatie van ondertiteling : een evenwichtsoefening [Evaluating subtitles: A fine balance of priorities] (Evaluatie van vertalingen : methoden op de proef gesteld [Evaluating Translations : Testing Methods], symposium organised by the Department of Translators and Interpreters of Artesis University College and the Department of Translation and Interpreting of Lessius University College, 23 March 2006 at Artesis, Antwerp).

The intralingual subtitling of Dutch and Flemish TV programmes in Flanders: Figures and a first analysis (The Study of Language & Translation, University college Ghent, 12-14 January, co-authors Annick De Houwer & Reinhild Vandekerckhove, University of Antwerp).

Who′s big brother ? Getting to the bottom of norms in AVT (International Conference on Audiovisual Translation. In So Many Words : Language Transfer on the Screen . University of Surrey and University of Surrey, Roehampton, 6-7 February).

2002

What the British New Wave adaptations said (International Film Conference. World Cinemas: Identity, Politics, Culture, University of Leeds, 25-27 June).